Rediscovering Purpose: Embracing God's Unique Calling
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "Not only do we allow our past to cripple us, we allow the culture to define us. Current ways and current trends, it defines us. Now, I always say, and I forgot who actually said this quote here, but the quote is, in matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. It's okay to kind of move things around in seasons where, you know, in this season, just like now, we're going to a season now where we're in the spring and we're wearing spring clothes, but the summertime is coming. And you don't wear coats in the summertime, right? So, the season calls to wear more different kind of clothes, right? I don't even see you at the beach with a sweatsuit on. Are you with me? That's style. Those things come and those things change. But what shouldn't change in your life is standards, is principles." [13:15]
2. "We let our past cripple us. We let culture define us. And watch this here. We try to do it alone. We live an unlived life. Because we let our past cripple us. We let the culture define us. And we try to do it by ourselves. You got so much locked up on the inside of you. Mr. Brooks, who's the chairman over at the boys club over there. He got some dreams and some visions locked up in his head, locked up in his heart. But he can't bring the vision and the dreams locked up in his heart over at the boys and girls club by himself. He need a team. He need a group of people that got stuff that's locked up on the inside of him. All coming together collectively. Manifesting something, building something that he could not do by himself." [19:49]
3. "We need people. People say, I don't need nobody. Yes, you do. God designed us to need. A baby needs someone to get them out of the crib. God wired us to need people. But we come to a place in our world where people have either been offended or hurt. And leadership doesn't know how to handle that to help bridge the gap. The gap from the brokenness in bringing people together." [23:42]
4. "You're supposed to be peculiar. Listen. People are supposed to see you and see something distinguish about you than how other people respond and act. You may work at the same company, same job, and everybody else may be going off on the balls. How are you going to respond? Everybody else may be late every single day. How are you going to respond? What is peculiar about you? It won't take all that Pastor Corey. And that's why you ain't got some of your blessings right there. That's why you ain't got some of your, because what God will allow them to get away with, you can't get away with." [32:37]
### Quotes for Members
1. "It begins with a calling. 2 Timothy 1.9, he has saved us and called us to a holy life, not because of anything we have done, but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus. Before the beginning of time. So before you allow Egypt to mess you all up over the years and you did life on your own terms, God had already had designs for you. Now that I hope you discovered some of that over the past couple of weeks of who you are and what you're designed to be. Now it's time for you to get on a team and to a place where you can make a difference." [36:14]
2. "Your ministry is specific. The ministry over your life, the assignment over your life, it is specific. When they tried to put the armor on Saul or on David, and I can't break this down now, but when they tried to put the same armor on David that everybody else normally used, David put it on him. But David threw it off and said, this don't fit me. This don't work for me. And he used his simple sling. He used his slingshot and a rod to make a difference in his generation. I don't know what you got in your hand. I don't know what you got in your house. It may not look like what everybody else has, but if the anointing of God is on your life, he could use a slingshot and a rod. He could use a stutterer. Come on, somebody. He could use a form of thief. He could use a form of prostitute to do something great. And he will see." [37:06]
3. "Acts chapter 20 verse 24 says, But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus. That's a cause. He has a cause. Listen, you need to figure out what's your why. Some of you figured your why out in growth track already. Now you've discovered your why. Because if you don't figure out your why, or if you ever lose your why, you'll lose your way. And too many people have lost their why. And because you, and you thought your why was a dream house. And somehow life caused you to lose that dream house. And now you think that because you lost the dream house, your why is over with. No baby girl, baby man, your why is bigger than a house." [38:22]
4. "But we all got the position as ministers. And you know how, and even, even in our government. In particular in other nations, they use the words like the minister of defense. The minister of agriculture. See, we get so caught up in the church. I want to be called minister because they make me look good. No, do you know anything about defense? Do you know anything about agriculture? The thing is, we're all called to be ministers. Have I discovered my purpose and what I'm supposed to be ministering in? Even if it's not the pulpit. Come on somebody. You could be a school teacher and you're ministering. You could be a doctor and you're ministering. You could be a lawyer and you're ministering." [29:15]
5. "Then he switches it in the end and says, I will take you as my own people. It went from an individual to a people. And we call it here at Hope City, the dream team. Because we don't believe you should be doing life alone. Yes, you individually got gifts and talents locked up on the inside of you. He brought you out of your Egypt for a total different reason than he brought me out. Yes, we were all struggling with something. But what you were struggling with may be totally different for why I came out of Egypt. But when he ultimately gets done with all of us, he wants to bring us together, group us together as a people to make a difference." [20:42]
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1. "Not only do we allow our past to cripple us, we allow the culture to define us. Current ways and current trends, it defines us. Now, I always say, and I forgot who actually said this quote here, but the quote is, in matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock. It's okay to kind of move things around in seasons where, you know, in this season, just like now, we're going to a season now where we're in the spring and we're wearing spring clothes, but the summertime is coming. And you don't wear coats in the summertime, right? So, the season calls to wear more different kind of clothes, right? I don't even see you at the beach with a sweatsuit on. Are you with me? That's style. Those things come and those things change. But what shouldn't change in your life is standards, is principles." [13:15]
2. "We let our past cripple us. We let culture define us. And watch this here. We try to do it alone. We live an unlived life. Because we let our past cripple us. We let the culture define us. And we try to do it by ourselves. You got so much locked up on the inside of you. Mr. Brooks, who's the chairman over at the boys club over there. He got some dreams and some visions locked up in his head, locked up in his heart. But he can't bring the vision and the dreams locked up in his heart over at the boys and girls club by himself. He need a team. He need a group of people that got stuff that's locked up on the inside of him. All coming together collectively. Manifesting something, building something that he could not do by himself." [19:49]
3. "We need people. People say, I don't need nobody. Yes, you do. God designed us to need. A baby needs someone to get them out of the crib. God wired us to need people. But we come to a place in our world where people have either been offended or hurt. And leadership doesn't know how to handle that to help bridge the gap. The gap from the brokenness in bringing people together." [23:42]
4. "You're supposed to be peculiar. Listen. People are supposed to see you and see something distinguish about you than how other people respond and act. You may work at the same company, same job, and everybody else may be going off on the balls. How are you going to respond? Everybody else may be late every single day. How are you going to respond? What is peculiar about you? It won't take all that Pastor Corey. And that's why you ain't got some of your blessings right there. That's why you ain't got some of your, because what God will allow them to get away with, you can't get away with." [32:37]
### Quotes for Members
1. "It begins with a calling. 2 Timothy 1.9, he has saved us and called us to a holy life, not because of anything we have done, but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus. Before the beginning of time. So before you allow Egypt to mess you all up over the years and you did life on your own terms, God had already had designs for you. Now that I hope you discovered some of that over the past couple of weeks of who you are and what you're designed to be. Now it's time for you to get on a team and to a place where you can make a difference." [36:14]
2. "Your ministry is specific. The ministry over your life, the assignment over your life, it is specific. When they tried to put the armor on Saul or on David, and I can't break this down now, but when they tried to put the same armor on David that everybody else normally used, David put it on him. But David threw it off and said, this don't fit me. This don't work for me. And he used his simple sling. He used his slingshot and a rod to make a difference in his generation. I don't know what you got in your hand. I don't know what you got in your house. It may not look like what everybody else has, but if the anointing of God is on your life, he could use a slingshot and a rod. He could use a stutterer. Come on, somebody. He could use a form of thief. He could use a form of prostitute to do something great. And he will see." [37:06]
3. "Acts chapter 20 verse 24 says, But my life is worth nothing to me unless I use it for finishing the work assigned me by the Lord Jesus. That's a cause. He has a cause. Listen, you need to figure out what's your why. Some of you figured your why out in growth track already. Now you've discovered your why. Because if you don't figure out your why, or if you ever lose your why, you'll lose your way. And too many people have lost their why. And because you, and you thought your why was a dream house. And somehow life caused you to lose that dream house. And now you think that because you lost the dream house, your why is over with. No baby girl, baby man, your why is bigger than a house." [38:22]
4. "But we all got the position as ministers. And you know how, and even, even in our government. In particular in other nations, they use the words like the minister of defense. The minister of agriculture. See, we get so caught up in the church. I want to be called minister because they make me look good. No, do you know anything about defense? Do you know anything about agriculture? The thing is, we're all called to be ministers. Have I discovered my purpose and what I'm supposed to be ministering in? Even if it's not the pulpit. Come on somebody. You could be a school teacher and you're ministering. You could be a doctor and you're ministering. You could be a lawyer and you're ministering." [29:15]
5. "Then he switches it in the end and says, I will take you as my own people. It went from an individual to a people. And we call it here at Hope City, the dream team. Because we don't believe you should be doing life alone. Yes, you individually got gifts and talents locked up on the inside of you. He brought you out of your Egypt for a total different reason than he brought me out. Yes, we were all struggling with something. But what you were struggling with may be totally different for why I came out of Egypt. But when he ultimately gets done with all of us, he wants to bring us together, group us together as a people to make a difference." [20:42]
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